Well Played
It was pretty ingenious to hold back a third instance of ACORN malfeasance, this time in a New York City office. I hope national publications are merely playing catchup on this story, doing their own reporting, rather than ignoring it.
I’d also love to watch the video from the ACORN offices where employees refused to help the kids finance their brothel for underage El Salvadorans, though I expect we’ll never get to see that footage.
“I’d also love to watch the video from the ACORN offices where employees refused to help the kids finance their brothel for underage El Salvadorans, though I expect we’ll never get to see that footage.”
Maybe we should start recording every law-abiding practice by every human being all over the world. Last time I checked, obeyingthe law was the norm, not the exception. Are you really this desparate to vindicate them? Maybe we should get some reporting on how law abiding Dick Cheney was too? Nah — that doesn’t generate enough web traffic.
— Matt C · Sep 14, 11:54 AM · #
Hey Conor:
Don’t worry. When those ACORN employees who refused to help the underage El Salvadorans are found, NBCCBSCNNNYTimesWAPONPR will be all over it.
— jd · Sep 14, 12:53 PM · #
Matt C,
You try my patience. To be fair, blog comments generally try my patience lately, but still. You write, “ Are you really this desparate to vindicate them?” Actually, I am not anxious to vindicate ACORN at all. I’ve written that they deserve far more negative attention that they are receiving, and praised the sting against them.
The reason I’d like to see all the footage is that it would be damned interesting. It is possible for people to be motivated by something other than a desire for a particular political advantage to be won.
— Conor Friedersdorf · Sep 14, 07:44 PM · #
Conor – I realize that you praised the sting against them, which is why you posted on the subject at all.
My point is simple: when the police conduct a sting, do we ever read about all the people who turned down the drugs, or the prostitute, or the bribe, etc…? Of course not, because this would put the STING up for debate, rather than the appropriate debate on why politician X took money from fake mobster Y for whatever reason.
I take your post(s) as part praise, part incredulity, part skepticism. I am attacking the skepticism.
— Matt C · Sep 14, 08:39 PM · #
I don’t understand. The filmmakers went to a bunch of ACORN offices. At least three ACORN offices were willing to make themselves complicit in a brothel for underage El Salvadorans. This alone is enough to conclude that the organization is seriously messed up.
At some other ACORN offices, however, the staff didn’t go along with the plot. How did they react? I’d be interested in finding out.
In what way should that curiosity be labeled “skepticism”? What is it that I am being skeptical about?
— Conor Friedersdorf · Sep 14, 09:39 PM · #
Or thought they were playing along with obviously unserious or crazy people. The claims the “investigators” are making are just comically absurd, as is the lead guy’s ridiculous “pimp” getup.
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